﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  tlic 
  Coleoptefa 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  855 
  

  

  elongate, 
  scabrose 
  punctures, 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  very 
  short 
  upright 
  

   black 
  hairs 
  with 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  two 
  series 
  of 
  erect 
  bristles, 
  the 
  suture 
  

   also 
  is 
  bristly 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  tri-dentate 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  long, 
  slender, 
  

   villose, 
  not 
  thickened 
  or 
  ampliated 
  at 
  apex. 
  

  

  Length 
  7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3^ 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Worcester). 
  

  

  Gymnoloma 
  sutuealis, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  164. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  reddish 
  brown, 
  opaque, 
  outer 
  and 
  

   basal 
  margins 
  of 
  prothorax 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  band 
  of 
  sub-flavescent 
  

   scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  with 
  a 
  moderately 
  broad 
  band 
  of 
  scales 
  along 
  the 
  

   suture, 
  and 
  a 
  narrow 
  line 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  ; 
  pygidial 
  part 
  and 
  

   abdominal 
  segments 
  densely 
  clothed 
  with 
  yellowish-white 
  scales 
  

   leaving 
  a 
  conspicuously 
  denuded 
  space 
  round 
  the 
  stemmata 
  ; 
  legs 
  

   reddish 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  a 
  little 
  attenuate 
  laterally, 
  truncate 
  at 
  tip 
  and 
  with 
  

   the 
  outer 
  angles 
  distinct, 
  prothorax 
  fringed 
  in 
  front 
  and 
  laterally 
  with 
  

   very 
  long, 
  black, 
  bristly 
  hairs, 
  the 
  median 
  furrow 
  is 
  shallow, 
  but 
  very 
  

   broad; 
  elytra 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  sinuate 
  below 
  the 
  

   humeral 
  part, 
  very 
  finely 
  punctured 
  and 
  extremely 
  briefly 
  pubescent, 
  

   distinctly 
  bi-costulate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  and 
  without 
  any 
  sprinkled 
  scales 
  

   besides 
  those 
  forming 
  the 
  sutural 
  band 
  and 
  the 
  outer 
  marginal 
  line 
  ; 
  

   anterior 
  tibiae 
  tri-dentate, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  basal 
  tooth 
  very 
  small; 
  hind 
  

   femora 
  moderately 
  slender, 
  simple 
  and 
  without 
  a 
  trochanterine 
  spine 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  narrowed 
  near 
  the 
  knee 
  and 
  slightly 
  dilated 
  from 
  there 
  to 
  

   the 
  apex, 
  somewhat 
  concave 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side, 
  flattened 
  inwardly, 
  

   and 
  with 
  the 
  two 
  apices 
  angular, 
  but 
  not 
  mucronate, 
  no 
  apical 
  spur 
  

  

  Length 
  7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Stellenbosch, 
  Malmesbury, 
  Caledon). 
  

  

  Gymnoloma 
  strigosa, 
  Burm., 
  

  

  Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  163. 
  

  

  Lacord. 
  Gener., 
  Atlas, 
  pi. 
  xxix., 
  fig. 
  2. 
  

  

  Male: 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  chestnut-brown, 
  opaque; 
  prothorax 
  

   with 
  a 
  median 
  and 
  an 
  outer 
  marginal 
  band 
  of 
  white, 
  somewhat 
  dense 
  

   scales, 
  which 
  form 
  also 
  a 
  partly 
  obliterated 
  one 
  along 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  

   scutellum 
  scaly; 
  elytra 
  with 
  a 
  sutural, 
  two 
  discoidal 
  and 
  an 
  outer 
  

   marginal 
  line 
  of 
  white 
  scales; 
  pygidium 
  and 
  under 
  side 
  densely 
  scaly 
  

   the 
  former 
  having 
  a 
  denuded 
  median 
  basal 
  patch 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  very 
  slightly 
  

   attenuate 
  laterally, 
  straight 
  at 
  tip 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  angles 
  distinct 
  ; 
  head 
  

   and 
  prothorax 
  rugose 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  not 
  very 
  short, 
  erect 
  black 
  

  

  